(B6) ALTERNATIVE METAL COVERS AND DESIGNS

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We decided to look at different album covers and T-shirts from alternative metal bands, to get an idea of what sort of design is being done for them. I chose to look at these six in particular as they are the bands/ albums that our six songs (selected earlier) are from. 

Rise Against - Appeal to Reason 

  • Illustrative almost collage-like with bold shapes/ silhouettes
  • Sepia, black and red colour scheme 
  • Rough, decayed serif font
  • T-shirt is basically an inversion of the album cover 
Nothingface - Skeletons

  • Illustrative like before but, more hand-drawn design 
  • Sepia look, black and red colour scheme again 
  • Hand-rendered, inked logotype
  • T-shirt is the album cover design without the background 

Bullet for my Valentine - Poison 

  • Illustrative looks more like a digital illustration
  • Red, black and white colour scheme 
  • Bespoke, serif logotype with ornate illustrations
  • Band tees and other merchandise sport the logotype or full album design 
Stone Sour - Come whatever May 

  • Photographic design
  • Sepia-toned imagery 
  • Sans serif font 
  • Once again, the album design has been used across the merchandise

Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony

  • Photographic design 
  • Blue tint on black and white colour scheme 
  • Serif font 
  • The tshirt uses the album cover design 
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 
  • Similar to the first album, this has a collage look but uses a mix of mediums
  • Sepia, red, black and white colour scheme
  • Bespoke sans serif logotype
  • A large range of merchandise includes the logotype and elements from the album cover. Design is much more considered and elaborate than the other band's merch
I noticed there was not much variation of merchandise across the bands apart from Bullet for my Valentine and Linkin Park's albums. I am assuming that it is due to the two being more popular than the others and these two albums were huge hits. Linkin Park's merchandise is definitely the most extensive and has the level of consideration we want to be taking with our designs. 

There are a lot of similarities across the aesthetic, colour scheme and typography on all of the albums. I think it's certain to say that black with a strong colour like red will be quite an effective colour scheme. 

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